School shootings

Wherever we have water, people play and frolic in it, we have Life Guards! Why not have them in our schools?

We should have someone tough, someone understanding, someone with authority, someone with proper training and someone armed.

Where would we get these people? Well, How about retired prison guards, police, Army or Marines personnel? They are well trained at our great expense.

Why let that all go to waste? There are thousands of schools. There are millions of retired people who we can pick and choose from to get the best qualified.

Retired veterans need work, even part-time. There are women as well as men available.

Please don't let this opportunity go to waste before some other incident occurs. An incident is a killing far away to someone you don't know. A tragedy is when your family's blood is let.

Many of these people have interesting true stories to tell, possibly generating rapport when they speak at various assemblies and meetings.

We currently have police giving helpful advice in our local schools. Many of our children do not have a father figure to emulate or look up to, this may go a long way to fulfill that need.

There may well be a considerable influence to join a service organization as well. I think it's worth discussing these concepts with friends. I think this might work and I am open to listen to opposing viewpoints or other ideas.